A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Better a bald head than none at all.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.