Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.