A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Patience has tender feet.