He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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.