He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king’s.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons: those that make them, those that execute them, and those that suffer if they break them.