Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.