“We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.”

A curse burns bright on crime

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

My heart’s a dance of fear.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.