The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. - Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.