Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Character is inured habit.

A fool cannot hold his tongue.