On day is pressed on by another.
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
Mistakes are their own instructors