Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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.

Music is breath of life.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

Loving you is kissing the night, exposing the scars, words in flames, for every drop and for every life.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?