Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.