Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

The grave is the general meeting place.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.