Some Would Be Sages If They Did

Begin With Another's To End With Your Own.

God Himself Chasteneth Not With A Rod But With Time.

Hope Has A Good Memory, Gratitude A Bad One.

A Person Of Your Century: Great Persons Are Of Their Time. Not All Were Born Into A Period Worthy Of Them, And Many So Born Failed To Benefit By It. Some Merited A Better Century, For All That Is Good Does Not Always Triumph. Fashions Have Their Periods And Even The Greatest Virtues, Their Styles. But The Philosopher, Being Ageless, Has One Advantage: Should This Not Prove The Right Century, Many To Follow Will.

To Overvalue Something Is A Form Of Lying.