Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

We are born poets. we become orators.

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.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.