Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
Do nothing twice over.
Every animal loves itself.
Every man’s friend is no man’s friend.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Falsehoods border on truths.