“Shame is Pride’s cloak.”
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“The cut worm forgives the plough.”
“Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead.”
“In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.”