Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
He who labors diligently need never despair.
Whom the gods love dies young.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.