“The workman still is greater than his work.”

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

No man has perpetual good fortune.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage,

Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself. Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.