Economise in speaking, but not in thinking.
Only an oath to do evil may you break with God's permission.
If you have fixed to-morrow as a day for revenge, do not sleep but talk with death, and see if it were not better to postpone your vengeance.
If you help a beggar, you wipe out the fault of your ancestors.
When will the world become better? When the ass stops competing with the nightingale.
When will the world become better? When men build two bridges—one to God and one to nature—and when rich men learn to consider themselves great debtors to God.
God is more silent than silence in observing sins, and more audible than a cart in punishing them.
God and sinners wish to annihilate one another.