The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consist in promoting the pleasures of others.
—La Bruyere.
1525
ONE WAY OF AVOIDING PNEUMONIA.
When the fire in your room goes out, drop your pen, or, if reading, your book, and go out too; If you remain, and continue your work, you may regret it. Many a student in the universities, anxious to get on with his studies, has worked in a cold room and paid the penalty with—Pneumonia, ending sometimes in death.
—Observer.
1526
Modern poets mix much water with their ink.
—Goethe.