“It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.”

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

The gods play games with men as balls.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

In everything the middle road is best.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

How great in number are the little minded men.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.