No day is wholly unproductive of good.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.