Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.