Make yourself of honey and you will be eaten by the flies.
Never be too sure of a pleasure in store for you, for the nectar which you see in your glass may be spilled before your lips have touched it.
The «Operibus credere, et non verbis,» it is sometimes wise to remember.
What is the wheel work of society? Vanity. What is the history of the world? «Vanitas, vanitatur et per omnia vanitas.»
Generosity never exists in the beggarly heart, though it often exists in the beggar’s heart.
By an evil tongue more persons are injured than by the greatest accident. An accident may occasionally injure many individuals, but an evil tongue injures constantly.