Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.