Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

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

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.