Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

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

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.