Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.