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

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

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

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.