Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.