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?

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

Many can argue - not many converse.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.