It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

One hand washes the other.