“Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.”

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

In everything one must consider the end.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The sign brings customers.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.