We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Be not solitary, be not idle
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.