How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
Loudness is impotence.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.