If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.