Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

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

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

The little birds have God for their caterer.