To Smell, Though Well, Is To Stink.

I Walk Firmer And More Secure Uphill Than Down.

It Is The Part Of Cowardliness, And Not Of Virtue, To Seek To Squat Itself In Some Hollow Lurking Hole, Or To Hide Herself Under Some Massive Tomb, Thereby To Shun The Strokes Of Fortune.

Women When They Marry Buy A Cat In The Bag.

And One Might Therefore Say Of Me That In This Book I Have Only Made Up A Bunch Of Other People's Flowers, And That Of My Own I Have Only Provided The String That Ties Them Together.

There Is No Course Of Life So Weak And Sottish As That Which Is Managed By Order, Method, And Discipline.