Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.