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.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!