Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.