Work at it night and day.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.