O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.].

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Fal….

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain..

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed..

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you..

A picture is a poem without words.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it..

Rule your mind or it will rule you..

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think..

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind..

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end..

A man of refined taste and judgment..

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they kno….

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be bri….

Most virtue lies between two vices..

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi p….

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use..

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets..

And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna min….

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not..

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear..