No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
Walter RaleighThe difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Walter RaleighIt is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Walter RaleighBecause all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Walter Raleigh