Chance generally favors the prudent.
Never cut what you can untie.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.