Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

It is much easier to begin than to end.