A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.