Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.