"Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise."

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing."

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."

"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind."

"He who would leap high must take a long run."

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth."

"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."