It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.