“A poet is born not made.”
Poeta nascitur, non fit
“They laugh well who laugh last.”
Rira bien qui rira le dernier
“No pillows so soft as God's Promise.”
“Loans and debts make worry and frets.”
“Every one is worth as much as he has.”
Jeder gilt so viel als er hat
“Competition is the whetstone of talent.”
“He suffered from paralysis by analysis.”
“They that envy others are their inferiors.”
Qui invidet minor est
“Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.”
“Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.”
L'imagination galope, le jugement ne va que le pas
“Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.”
“The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.”
La faiblesse de l'ennemi fait notre propre force
“Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!”
“Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner.”
“Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.”
“You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.”
“Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.”
“It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.”
“It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.”
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”