A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By ...

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune gr ...

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn. "

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them Less pain, less to be fled, or thou than they Less hardy to endure? Courageous chief ...