If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.