There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.