The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
They think too little who talk too much.
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.