“Abstain from beans.”
“Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.”
“Time is the wisest of all counselors.”
“The wildest colts make the best horses.”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].”
“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”
“To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
“Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.”
“Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.”
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
“Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
“The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.”
“When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”
“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”
“In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.”
“Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.”
“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
“Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.”
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”
“The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”