Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
Brighter than Parian marble.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.