He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.