Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least. - William Hazlitt

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.