We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.