Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.