O imitators, you slavish herd!
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
