Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.