 The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. |
| Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. |
| Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. |
| 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. |
| To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. |
| Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. |
| Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. |
| Fair and softly goes far. |
| Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. |
| Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. |
| Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. |
| Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. |
| Virtue is the truest nobility. |
