The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
Time flows away like the water in the river.
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.