“Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Let deeds correspond with words.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

And I’m not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral – that can’t happen.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

So I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.