“Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.”

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love.

Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.