He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!