“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in wonted manner keep:Hesperus entreats thy light,Goddess excellently bright.Earth, let not thy env...”

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

“For a man to write well, there are required three necessariesto read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”