“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Let every man look before he leaps.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.

Until death it is all life.

Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.