“Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.”
“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.”
“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
“All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.”
“Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.”
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
“Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.”
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
“Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
“Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.”
“It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.”
“Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”
“Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.”
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”
“Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.”
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.”
“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”