Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.