I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.