None can be so true to your secret as yourself.

Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

What, O wise man, is the tongue in the mouth? It is a key to the casket of the intellectual treasurer; so long as the lid remains shut how can any person say whether he be a dealer in gems or in pedlery?

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

A traveller without knowledge is a bird without wings.