The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
And all may do what has by man been done.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Affliction is a good man’s shining time.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time’s enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Mine is the night, with all her stars.
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.