Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

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.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

All concord's born of contraries.