The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

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?