And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.