If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.