Thomas Hood

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.