Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.