Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.