He who sings frightens away his ills.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

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.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.