Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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.]

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.