Don’t think, just do.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
We are but dust and shadow.
Carpe diem. (Seize The Day)
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone.
Faults are soon copied.
If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?
My observations are for my own improvement; and my writings are just an amusing pastime.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Pactum serva – (Keep the fait)
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Anger is a brief madness.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
It is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
To action little, less to words inclinded.
Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.
Make a good use of the present.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
