Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.