All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.