“Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.”

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Even genius is tied to profit.

The test of any man lies in action.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

The noblest of the elements is water.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

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

Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

You can’t revisit it. It vanishes.

I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place.