There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Life is long if it is full.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.