“If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.”
“He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.”
“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”
“They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.”
“He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.”
“Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.”
“I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.”
“Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.”
“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.”
“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
“What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.”
“Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.”
“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.”
“Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.”
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”
“He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
“Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
“Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.”
“Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.”
“No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.”
“Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person”
“The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.”
“A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.”
“It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.”
“Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.”