“A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.”

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Give the devil his due.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Let every man mind his own business.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

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.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says