“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

A hare is not caught with a drum.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.

The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.

She is the storm and the rainbow that comes after.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.