It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.