If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.