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My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ...

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.

Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.

But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.