Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.