“It is much easier to begin than to end.”

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

The gods play games with men as balls.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

In everything the middle road is best.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

How great in number are the little minded men.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.

He means well’ is useless unless he does well.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Let deeds correspond with words.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I am myself my own commander.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

I read. It affects every decision that I make.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page