Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.