There is measure in all things.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.