You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.