Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
No man is born without faults.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.