The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn read more

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

I care not twopence.

I care not twopence.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.