When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.