Don't just think, do.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Make a good use of the present.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.