“It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

That which costs little is less valued.

Comparisons are odious.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Many littles make a much.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Where there’s music there can be no evil.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.