Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.