A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Live life to the fullest

when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

I was not an activist.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.