What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The glory is for those who deserve.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.