Language
Lewis Carroll
It’s my own invention. the White Knight
He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
It’s as large as life, and twice as natural!
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’
You see it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.
There’s glory for you!
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’
Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.
‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice,
Thomas Carlyle
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
The true University of these days is a collection of books.
History a distillation of rumour.
‘Genius’ (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit.
Truman Capote
Other voices, other rooms.
Calímaco
A great book is like great evil.
Júlio César
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,
