It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.