The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.