When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.