Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.