The world meets nobody half way.
It is good to have friends at court.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.