Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.