“What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?”

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He who gives early gives twice.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

I’m scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the long run.

Money is the wise man’s religion.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

I’m no angel if that’s what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.