Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.