If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.