A stout heart breaks bad luck.
~ Miguel De Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
To be prepared is half the victory.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
