When man and woman die, as poets sung, / His heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

To he proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Wise men ... learn by others’ harms, fools scarcely by their own.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.