Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.