A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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.

What has not wasting time impaired?

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]