"I'm sorry I ever met you" is effective enough, but how much more piquant is the same communication expressed as: "I rue the day I met you."

"Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we…"

"There is a certain amount of sham in. There is a certain amount of theatre. It’s as loosely knit as that. We’re sort of coming out of the closet a bit more over the next couple of years. We’re going t…"

"I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through."

"Time is movement and cannot be checked. Time passes us and rushes on, and we remind behind, old and crumbled. But we are juvenated again and again by static and continuous movement. Let us be transfor…"