When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Nature is harmony in discord.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Work at it night and day.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
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