Few maxims are true in every respect.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
Action makes more fortune than caution.