If he should love deny him what he loves!
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.