Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

whatever you become be good at it

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.