Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Threatened folk live long.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.