As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.