Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.