The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.