A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Hope is a working-man's dream.