Tediousness Is The Most Fatal Of All

To Keep Your Secret Is Wisdom; But To Expect Others To Keep It Is Folly.

Kindness Is In Our Power, Even When Fondness Is Not.

A Blade Of Grass Is Always A Blade Of Grass, Whether In One Country Or Another.

Superfluous Lags The Veteran On The Stage, Till Pitying Nature Signs The Last Release, And Bids Afflicted Worth Retire To Peace.

Ye Who Listen With Credulity To The Whispers Of Fancy, And Pursue With Eagerness The Phantoms Of Hope; Who Expect That Age Will Perform The Promises Of Youth, And That The Deficiencies Of The Present Day Will Be Supplied By The Morrow, - Attend To The History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia.