the younger Andronicus was speedily corrupted by his infant greatness,

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.

"Capital," he said," had no conscience and no fatherland."

Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

time fleets, youth fades, life is an empty dream,

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

Youth is a failing only too
easily outgrown.

Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.