And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.