I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
God ever works with those who work with will.