Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.