Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.