“Dine on little, and sup on less.”

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Delay always breeds danger.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.