Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.