Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.