When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Sufi Epigram
Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
Satires Juvenal
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
George Berkely
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Sir W Temple
There is measure in all things.
Horace
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
How happy I am, if you say this from your heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of another.
John Gay
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot
The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.
Henry St John
When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
William B Given
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.