Better A Serpent Than A Stepmother!

High Honors Are Sweet To A Man's Heart, But Ever They Stand Close To The Brink Of Grief.

Who Knoweth If To Die Be But To Live, And That Called Life By Mortals Be But Death?

Do Not Mistake For Wisdom That Opinion Which May Rise From A Sick Mind.

Old Men's Prayers For Death Are Lying Prayers, In Which They Abuse Old Age And Long Extent Of Life. But When Death Draws Near, Not One Is Willing To Die, And Age No Longer Is A Burden To Them.

Happy Is It To Place A Daughter; Yet It Pains A Father's Heart When He Delivers To Another's House A Child, The Object Of His Tender Care.