That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

To be prepared is half the victory.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

To be prepared is half the victory.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.