The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.