Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.