In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.