"We ought to do our neighbor all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the sa…"

"It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one."

"Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of pre…"

"Men are used as they use others."

"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

"Guilty consciences always make people cowards."

"Whoever … prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain."

"There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good."

"There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed…"

"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."