I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.