Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.