Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

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.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

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

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

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