If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.