A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.