The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant