The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.