I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.