Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.