Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

Learn to labour and to wait.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.