Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.