1. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief, the enemy of the living.
2.
Excuses are clothes which, when asked unawares,
Good Breeding to naked Necessity spares.
3. Human experience is the great test of truth.
4. Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers.
5. Three properties belong to wisdom,—nature, learning, and experience; three things characterize man,—person, fate, and merit.
6.
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
7. Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies.
8. They charged, sword in hand and visor down.