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.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

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

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