If you seek well, you will find.
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian.
In the young, silence is better than speech.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
It is not summer until the crickets sing.
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man.
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.
Kindness begets kindness.
Know all and you will pardon all.
Listen to that which is well said even if it is from the mouth of an enemy.
Live today, forget the past.
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
Men who have lost heart never yet won a trophy.
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
Mountains are used to snow.
My donkey is dead; let no more grass grow.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.