The house praises the carpenter.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
In imitation is a bit suicide.
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.