Be Just Before You Are Generous.

There Needs No Small Degree Of Address To Gain The Reputation Of Benevolence Without Incurring The Expense.

A Man May Surely Be Allowed To Take A Glass Of Wine By His Own Fireside.

That Old Man Dies Prematurely Whose Memory Records No Benefits Conferred. They Only Have Lived Long Who Have Lived Virtuously.

Tale-bearers Are As Bad As The Tale-makers.

Many A Wretch Has Rid On A Hurdle Who Has Done Less Mischief Than Utterers Of Forged Tales, Coiners Of Scandal, And Clippers Of Reputation.