Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.