A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.