We should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed. Thomas à Kempis.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Thoreau.
We should count time by heart-throbs. / He 25 most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, / Acts the best. Bailey.
We should despise the wretch who has never once thought what it is he is doing (vollbringt). Goethe (?).
We should distinguish between laughter inspired by joy, and that which arises from mockery. Goldsmith.
We should eat to live, and not live to eat. Pr.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius.
We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. 30 I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Colton.
We should guard against a talent which we cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve it as we may, we shall always in the end, when the merit of the master has become apparent to us, painfully lament the loss of time and strength devoted to such botching. Goethe.
We should have all our communications with men as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men. Colton.