He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.