“Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.”

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.