I have nothing to offer but blood, boil, tears and sweat. If you would go up higher, then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads. It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

A woman she has a beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;but if she has a beautiful behavior it is much better than a beautiful form There is no man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it.