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.
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.
Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.