Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.