The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Don't think, just do.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Whatever advice you give, be short.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.