Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Men freely believe that which they desire.