"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."

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

"He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him."

"Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent."

"There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed."

"Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise."

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."

"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

"It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will."

"As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."

"Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance."

"A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone."

"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."

"If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?"

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

"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. (Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)"

"You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain."

"Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)"

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix. (Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back, Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)"

"Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom."

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

"Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium"

"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)"

"Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)"