Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

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

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.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

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

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.

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 uncleanness; whose end is hell.

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

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The sad part is that you love her.... and she didn't love you back.

A day without prayer is a boast against God.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.