“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand is mended by the endevour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible”

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.”

“Well done is better than well said.”