Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

Reborn, Sappho wears monks' saffron.

The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private or public .

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

What wound did ever heal but my degrees?

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him. - Francis Bacon,

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

Guests and fish start to stink after two days.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.