“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.