The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

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

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

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?

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.