In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
Love supreme defies all sophistry.
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.