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

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

A carpenter is known by his chips.