He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.