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

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

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

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

The covetous man is ever in want.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.