But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.