Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

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

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it