A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.