An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Distrust interested advice.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.