“Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.