“Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.”

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

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

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I’ve mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they’re made to look dumb! The ‘superior species’ in their situations would, too, appear ‘dumb’.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.