He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

What's well begun is half done.

The words can not return.