We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Programming languages with lazy evaluation support corecursion so that the programmer can refer to infinite objects.

Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.

In 1849 the watermongers had not yet appeared. One man who offered $50 for a drink found that there was none for sale.