Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.