What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

One bee makes no swarm.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.

Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast; but of the things which thou hast select the best, and reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if thou hadst them not