A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. |
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. |
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. |
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. |
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. |
An angry father is most cruel towards himself. |
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. |
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. |
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. |
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. |
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. |
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. |
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. |
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. |
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. |
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. |
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. |
Take care that no one hates you justly. |
They do injury to the good who spares the bad. |
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. |