Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.