True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
Silence is the eternal duty of man.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.