To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
Half is done when the beginning is done.