To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.