"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)"

"He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"

"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"

"If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief."

"This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist."

"Treacherous ashes hide The fires through which you stride"

"I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious."

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."

"Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues."

"Struggling to be brief I become obscure."

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

"You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers"

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

"I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave"

"The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance."

"Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed."

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."

"What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled."

"How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise."

"Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously."

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."

"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war."

"Faults are soon copied."