Life is not living, but living in health.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.