If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.