“Faults are soon copied.”

“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.”

“he who is greedy is always in want”

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

“Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11)”

“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”

“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”