For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

No man can help another without helping himself.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.