It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.