Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.