Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.