You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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?
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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.