The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to...
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Never do anything when you are in a temper for you will do everything wrong.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much...
A bad manner spoils everything even reason and justice a good one supplies...
In those days it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through and write it down.
