Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.