To be prepared is half the victory.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.