Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.