“He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

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.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.