True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.