In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true