Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

With silence favor me.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.