Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.