A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.