Labour is the source of every blessing..

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh..

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails..

The gods help them who help themselves..

Every one is more or less master of his own fate..

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it..

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities..

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another..

It is useless attacking the insensible..

Familiarity gives rise to contempt..

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued..

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both.

Every man should be content to mind his own business..

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?.

If words suffice not, blows must follow..

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own..

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay..

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth..

Wealth unused might as well not exist..

There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from ti….