The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.