In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.