We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.