'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.
Tit for tat is fair play. Pr.
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons 15 and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. Goldsmith.
Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title. John Ford.
Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal. (?)
Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis—Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. Suetonius.
To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post. Hitopadesa.
To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a 20 dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow. Schopenhauer.
To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides.
To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies. Auerbach.