The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

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.