Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.