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

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

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.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.