Seventeen Hundred And Fifty-five. Georgius Secundus Was

For The Simplicity On This Side Of Complexity, I Wouldn't Give You A Fig. But For The Simplicity On The Other Side Of Complexity, For That I Would Give You Anything I Have.

Don't Flatter Yourselves That Friendship Authorizes You To Say Disagreeable Things To Your Intimates. On The Contrary, The Nearer You Come Into Relation With A Person, The More Necessary Do Tact And Courtesy Become.

As We Grow Older We Think More And More Of Old Persons And Of Old Things And Places. As To Old Persons, It Seems As If We Never Know How Much They Have To Tell Until We Are Old Ourselves And They Have Been Gone Twenty Or Thirty Years. Once In A While We Come Upon Some Survivor Of His Or Her Generation That We Have Overlooked, And Feel As If We Had Recovered One Of The Lost Books Of Livy Or Fished Up The Golden Candlestick From The Ooze Of The Tiber.

Wisdom Is The Abstract Of The Past, But Beauty Is The Promise Of The Future.

The World's Great Men Have Not Commonly Been Great Scholars, Nor Its Great Scholars Great Men.