Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

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 father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

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.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Night is the mother of counsels.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

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.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.