Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.