We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.