None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.