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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

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