Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.