Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.