“Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.”

The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things.

Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.

In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Want a thing long enough and you don’t.