HEN the young Greek for Atalanta sigh'd,
He might have fool'd and follow'd till he died!
He learn'd the sex, the bribe before her roll'd,
And found, the short way to the heart, is—Gold.
George Croly (1780-1860).
E mortuis nil nisi bene: of the living speak nothing but evil.
Heinrich Heine, Thoughts and Fancies.
ONCE met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Charles Buxton, Notes of Thought.