For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

There is nothing costs less than civility.