According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCNothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642