Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
The conscience is more wise than science.
Half talent is no talent.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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.
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.