The more you do, the more you can do.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Reflection makes men cowards.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.