The Bell Never Rings Of Itself; Unless

The Gods Confound The Man Who First Found Out How To Distinguish Hours! Confound Him, Too, Who In This Place Set Up A Sun-dial, To Cut And Hack My Days So Wretchedly Into Small Portions.

He Who Falls In Love Meets A Worse Fate Than He Who Leaps From A Rock.

It Is Not Fair To Treat As Serious That Which Is Only Said In Joke.

That Man Will Never Be Unwelcome To Others Who Makes Himself Agreeable To His Own Family.

Poverty Is A Thorough Instructress In All The Arts. [lat., Paupertas . . . Omnes Artes Perdocet.]