Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.]

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]