Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

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

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

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.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.