Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

Live according to your income.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.