“The real owners of the land are not yet born.”

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.

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.

If you want something done and done well, do it yourself.

Death to the wolf is life to the lamb.

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

Deceit is a lie which wears a smile.

Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.

Death keeps no calendar.

The outward forms the inward man reveal – we guess the pulp before we cut the peel.

If you want to know the value of money, try borrowing some.