A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.