He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

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

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.