Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
There is no excellency without difficulty.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Habits change into character.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.