Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
That best of blessings, a contented mind.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.