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

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.