He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.