A wise man's question contains half the answer.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.