Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

A good resolve will make any port.

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.