Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
There is no one subsists by himself alone.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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.