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

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.