Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Never without a shilling in my purse.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.