Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.