Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.