Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.