The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
Everything may happen.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Full of men, vacant of friends.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.