One genius has made many clever artists.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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.
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.