Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
He who gives early gives twice.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Delay always breeds danger.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
He had a face like a blessing.
Every man is the son of his own works.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
Think before thou speakest.
There’s no love lost between us.