Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

Luck cannot change birth.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.