Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.
It is grievous to be caught.
That best of blessings, a contented mind.
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Those who want much, are always much in need.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Even virtue followed beyond reason’s rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.