Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.