You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.