That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.