What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel!
In appearance how like a god!
The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
--_Shakespeare._
1212
Direct not him, whose way himself will choose.
1213
He that can please nobody, is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody
can please.
--_Colton._
1214
To quarrel with a drunken man is harming the absent.
1215
Goethe said that there is no man so commonplace that a wise man may not
learn something from him. Sir Walter Scott could not travel in a coach
without gleaning some information or discovering some new trait of
character in his companions.
1216