Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.