An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.