Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Books are a narcotic

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such.