Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

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.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.