 We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors. Topics: Friendship |
| We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. Topics: Friendship |
| As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. Topics: Giving |
| Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family. Topics: Giving, Discretion |
| When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver. Topics: Giving, Discretion |
| A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Topics: Giving |
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| Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence. Topics: Gossip, Discretion, The Tongue |
| There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Topics: Gossip, The Tongue, Anger |
| Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness. Topics: Gratitude |
| The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. Topics: Gratitude |
| When our Savior drove the sheep and oxen out of the temple, He did not drive them into His own pasture; nor sweep the coin into His own pockets, when He overturned the table of the money-changers. Topics: Greed, Justice, Money |
| He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. Topics: Greed |
