Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.