Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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.