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

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

With you I should love to live with you be ready to die.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.