One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.