Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.