We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.