Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.