If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.