For Truth Is Precious And

People Are Lucky And Unlucky Not According To What They Get Absolutely, But According To The Ratio Between What They Get And What They Have Been Led To Expect.

Sensible People Get The Greater Part Of Their Own Dying Done During Their Own Lifetime

The History Of Art Is The History Of Revivals.

The Function Of Vice Is To Keep Virtue Within Reasonable Bounds.

Virtue Knows That It Is Impossible To Get On Without Compromise, And Tunes Herself, As It Were, A Trifle Sharp To Allow For An Inevitable Fall In Playing.