Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester..

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury..

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were..

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom par….

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercis….

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing..

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it..

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces….

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are unc….

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret..

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast..

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end..

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin..

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view t….

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in….

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertai….

God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; pract….

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intem….

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action..

The road to perseverance lies by doubt..

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well..