Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.