O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics..

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do..

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre..

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.].

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse diff….

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to hi….

They hate whom they fear..

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen..

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacry….

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza..

He who has two languages has two souls..

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping..

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat e….

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise..

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.].

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances..

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast..

The idle mind knows not what it wants..

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars..

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.