Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.