Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

I just became one with my browser software.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.