Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.