There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate...
And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.
Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him th...
Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was...