Silence never makes any blunders.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.