The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

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

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.