A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth..

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped..

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it.

We learn from the things we suffer..

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude..

Kindness is more persuasive than force..

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror..

Only cowards insult dying majesty..

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be..

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions..

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing..

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the ….

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing..

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty..

Don't go looking for trouble..

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves..

Each person has his strong point..

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today..

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same….