The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.