“We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.”

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.

Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.

You can’t make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

You look tired. Yeah, I agreed, and shrugged. Near-death experiences do that to me.