 Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. |
| Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. |
| Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. |
| A picture is a poem without words. |
| He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. |
| I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. |
| Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? |
| Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. |
| The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. |
| Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. |
| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. |
| Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. |
| Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. |
| Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. |
| In adversity remember to keep an even mind. |
| Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? |
| Fidelity is the sister of justice. |
| Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. |
| To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. |
