“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Speak little, do much.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

For he has conquered death, with the gift of His last breath. Go now, and share the news, the Savior beckons you.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

We break ourselves to fit better into all the wrong hearts.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

We are all broken things. But there’s so much beauty in those cracks. And so much strength in those places we’ve mended.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.