Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.