Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed