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

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

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

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

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?