“With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.”

All good things must come to an end.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

A love grown old is not the love once new.

There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Find a voice in a whisper.

Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.

Pay attention to what you’re saying about yourself. You are prophesying your future.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.