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• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. -- Walter Savage Lando
• Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
  -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- Rose Aylme...
• People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
  -- Walter Savage Lando...
• What's reading but silent conversation?
  -- Walter Savage Landor "Aristoteles and Callisthenes" -- Imaginary Conversations (1824-1853)...
• Bart: [hears singing] Jessica! Lisa: Bart, be strong!
  You don't need that little hellcat. Bart: Oh, Li...
• That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Home-Thoughts from Abroad, ii...