Whatever advice you give, be brief.

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.