Whatever your advice, make it brief.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.