It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful. - Will Cuppy

Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

He [Philip II] subdued the Greeks after they had knocked themselves out in the Peloponnesian War and appointed himself Captain General so that he could uphold the ideals of Hellas. The main ideal of Hellas was to get rid of Philip, but he didn't count that one.

[Footnote] The Phoenicians employed an alphabet of twenty-one consonants. They left no literature. You can't be literary without a few vowels.