Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start