Say what you have to say, not what you ought.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Be not simply good; be good for something.

Even trees do not die without a groan

I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.

To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather