Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

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

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.