Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
Lies can destroy, but not create.
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.