Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.