Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.