Then, after thanking him for his well-meant counsel, he answered, turning to the others also: "In better days rope-dancing was the profession of yonder poor, coughing creature.

Now, after a severe accident, she is dragging herself through life on one foot.

I once knew her, for I succeeded in saving her from terrible disgrace." "And," replied Wilibald Pirckheimer, "we would rather show kindness a second and a third time to any one on whom we have be stowed a favour than to render it once to a person from whom we have received one.

This is my own experience.

But the wise man must guard against nothing more carefully than to exceed moderation in his charity.