Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.