Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

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

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

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.