Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

After lunch; rest; after dinner walk a mile.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

Just as female bees gather so much honey little by little that it can fill several pots. Likewise, wise men gather knowledge, religious merit and penance little by little continuously, without ever giving up.

Whenever there is profit to be made then think of honesty.

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.