The Sleeping Fox Catches No Poultry.

It Is A Grand Mistake To Think Of Being Great Without Goodness And I Pronounce It As Certain That There Was Never A Truly Great Man That Was Not At The Same Time Truly Virtuous.

Those Who In Quarrels Interpose, Must Often Wipe A Bloody Nose.

Blame-all And Praise-all Are Two Blockheads.

Is There Anything Men Take More Pains About Than To Render Themselves Unhappy?

The Great Secret Of Succeeding In Conversation Is To Admire Little, To Hear Much; Always To Distrust Our Own Reason, And Sometimes That Of Our Friends; Never To Pretend To Wit, But To Make That Of Others Appear As Much As Possibly We Can; To Hearken To What Is Said And To Answer To The Purpose.