The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
Ones oldest friend is the best.
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.