We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

Most virtue lies between two vices.