Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.