While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
There is but a step between a proud man’s glory and his disgrace.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Prosperity has no power over adversity.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.