Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
The offender never pardons.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
The shortest answer is doing.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
The resolved mind hath no cares.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
Night is the mother of counsels.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
