"Shakspeare!" cried Tom. "Now where does this come from: 'the better part of valor is—discretion.'"
"Shakspeare again," replied Alice. "And in what book do you find this passage, which corroborates that noble sentiment:
'He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day.'"
"In Butler's Hudibras, I believe," rejoined Ellen. "And where may that truth be found, which evidently is intended only for boys and men—'Use every man after his desert, and who shall escape whipping?'"
"Of course it was said by no one else than Will Shakspeare, the deer-stealer—he knew it held good of himself, and was indulgent to others. And who was it that wrote this epitaph:
'Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as can die:
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than can live.'"