Living well is the best revenge.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
