Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.