A noisy man is always in the right.

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.