Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.