Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.

Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another’s lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

He who has two languages has two souls.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]