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

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.

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

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.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

I like doing new things..

I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I’d like to do a lead action role.

We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.