Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.