Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.