Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.