Let the poor man mind his tongue

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with drinking water in a desert. A lucky man will always find water.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.