Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

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.