It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.