What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.