Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.