Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.