At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
— Ovid
First appearance deceives many.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
