He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
A good resolve will make any port.
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.