Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.