Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Half is done when the beginning is done.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.