“Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.”

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself.

I would argue, but not always out there where they’re counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.

Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

Don’t let the storm in your heart overshadow the sunshine in your soul.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.