To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.