“Giving is true having.”
“Of two evils, choose neither.”
“The wishing gate opens into nothing.”
“We are all at times unconscious prophets.”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”
“Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.”
“You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.”
“Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.”
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
“There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.”
“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.”
“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.”
“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.”
“Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
“Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.”
“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”
“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
“It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.”
“When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.”
“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
“Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.”