Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

Let deeds match words.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.