Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

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?

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Many can argue - not many converse.