Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

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

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.