A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. - Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician, "I am the first of my family, but you are the last of yours" And since his time, those who value themselves merely on their ancestry, have been compared to potatoes, all that is good of them is under the ground.