The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.