Humble things become the humble.

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

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.