O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.