It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
There is always something new out of Africa.
Human nature is fond of novelty.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.