Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.