"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."

"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Labor diligently to increase your property."

"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."

"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."

"We are free to yield to truth."

"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit."

"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."

"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."

"A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."

"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice."

"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."

"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."

"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."

"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth."

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."

"A picture is a poem without words."

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

"Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born."

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

"Make a good use of the present."

"Whatever advice you give, be short."

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."

"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing."

"I teach that all men are mad."

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."