Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.