A Closed Mouth Catches No

In Order To Attain The Impossible, One Must Attempt The Absurd.

Do But Take Care To Express Yourself In A Plain, Easy Manner, In Well-chosen, Significant And Decent Terms, And To Give A Harmonious And Pleasing Turn To Your Periods: Study To Explain Your Thoughts, And Set Them In The Truest Light, Labouring As Much As Possible, Not To Leave Them Dark Nor Intricate, But Clear And Intelligible.

There Were No Embraces, Because Where There Is Great Love There Is Often Little Display Of It.

The Pitcher Goes So Often To The Fountain That If Gets Broken.

Laws That Only Threaten, And Are Not Kept, Become Like The Log That Was Given To The Frogs To Be Their King, Which They Feared At First, But Soon Scorned And Trampled On.