“Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.”

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Conquered, we conquer.

Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.