Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Every wise man lives in an observatory.