Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

What you would seem to be, be really.