Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Glitters overshadow the subtle beauty... Same goes for publicity and authenticity.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

Don't worry about what others think about you

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.