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

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

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

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

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