It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Tear thyself from delay.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
Anger is short madness
One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.
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