Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

You know what they say, when one door closes, another Belvedere opens.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

Are you not entertained?

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.