In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

Do not expect good from another's death.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.