Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

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

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

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.