“Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.”

Democracy is better than tyranny.

A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.

Delays can be dangerous.

If you look back, you’ll soon be going that way.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Absence kills a little love but makes the big ones grow.

The receiver is as bad as the thief.

A donkey is but a donkey though laden with gold.

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.

Deed done is well begun.

An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.

The real owners of the land are not yet born.

Above all nations is humanity.

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.

Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.

Deep calls unto deep.