Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Great spenders are bad lenders.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.