In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.