One honor won is a surety for more.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.