Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits