Learn what you are and be such.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Water is the best of all things.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.