Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.