Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.