I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.