A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

By the favour of the heavens