Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.