Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.