“Love not what you are but only what you may become.”

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Work without love is slavery.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

Love would never leave us alone.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.