By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.