Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.