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

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.