It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

This is a dying fleck of love, about a drunken man, and a broken woman, taking steps into the woods, trying to remember the days, when the moon was full.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

he who will not economize will agonize

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.