Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.