In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

If thou hast wit & learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty.

Being decent is remote from being modest because there are decent who are not modest. Modesty is the key.