A High Degree Of Intellectual Refinement In

All The Poets Are Indebted More Or Less To Those Who Have Gone Before Them; Even Homer's Originality Has Been Questioned, And Virgil Owes Almost As Much To Theocritus, In His Pastorals, As To Homer, In His Heroics; And If Our Own Countryman, Milton, Has Soared Above Both Homer And Virgil, It Is Because He Has Stolen Some Feathers From Their Wings.

The True Measure Of Your Character Is What You Do When Nobody's Watching.

The Victim To Too Severe A Law Is Considered As A Martyr Rather Than A Criminal.

Hurry Is The Mark Of A Weak Mind, Dispatch Of A Strong One.

Men Are Born With Two Eyes, But With One Tongue, In Order That They Should See Twice As Much As They Say.