We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.