Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Please all, and you will please none.
Little by little does the trick.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Little friends may prove great friends.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Example is the best precept.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.