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- Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau
- History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- James A. Forude
- Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade:
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
but a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
- Samuel Foote (1720 - 1777)
- My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss. - Sir Edward Dyer
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much. - John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
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