Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.