A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.