Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.