Where one door shuts another opens.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.