Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
There are as many preferences as there are men.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.