“…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…”
“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
“we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.”
“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,And so all yours.”
“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.”