I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why, - William Hazlitt

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.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.