He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.