A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

One good turn deserves another.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.