Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.