The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.