If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Do what you should, not what you may.

After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!