Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.