Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Universities designed the system in their image.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.