A good poet's made as well as born.
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.