“Jika anda ingin dicintai seseorang, cintailah dia dan bersikaplah agar layak dicintai.”
“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”
“He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.”
“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand is mended by the endevour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible”