Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

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

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

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.