Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

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

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

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

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.