A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

No bird has ever uttered note
That was not in some first bird's throat;
Since Eden's freshness and man's fall
No rose has been original.

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

"Gracious to all, to none subservient,
without offense he spoke the word he meant."