To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
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.