The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.Sherlock Holmes

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.