Nothing is achieved without toil.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.