A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.