But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.