You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it

Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own

When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger