“History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.”

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.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He who gives early gives twice.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Hope doesn’t come from words. Hope only comes from actions.

All we have to do is to wake up and change.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.

When you start defending someone by justifying their actions; you’re too attached.

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

She will be the one who doesn’t give a damn about what you say, and only what you do.