Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Poetry cannot be translation
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.