With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.