You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

One genius has made many clever artists.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.