A picture is a poem without words.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be,
And think each day that dawns the last you'll see;
For so the hour that greets you unforeseen
Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.