Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
Praise little, dispraise less.
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.