While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.