What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter. - James Burgh

Fools pretend to foretell what will be the issue of things, and are laughed at for their awkward conjectures. Wise men being aware of the uncertainty of human aflairs, and having observed how small a matter often produces a great change, are modest in their conjectures.

Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.

There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly.