The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Humble things become the humble.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

There is moderation in everything.

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.