Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.