Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

The brave venture anything.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.