That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.