I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.