Perverseness is your whole defence.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.