Talking payes no toll.

Talking payes no toll.

There is no retracing our steps.

There is no retracing our steps.

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!

Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.

Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing read more

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.

I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your read more

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.