The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.