Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

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.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.