Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.