 He who would search for pearls must dive below. |
| Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. |
| Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Topics: Anger |
| Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. |
| Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. |
| Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. |
| All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. |
| Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. |
| It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. |
| War is the trade of Kings. |
| Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. |
| Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. |
| Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong. |
| The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. Topics: Anger |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. |
| All heiresses are beautiful. |
| God never made His work for man to mend. |
| If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. |
| Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. |
| And plenty makes us poor. |
