Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.