Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.