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

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

To teach is to delight.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.