Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

He who gives early gives twice.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.