Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.