Gold will be slave or master.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Wherever you are, be there totally.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
No man was ever great by imitation.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
