Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

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.

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.

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

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...