Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

I happy am, if well with you.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.