If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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.
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.