Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.