A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the inconvenience in your life like ill-fitting wandering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

My mother is a beauty.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.