Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality, and then in retrospect.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

A lie never lives to be old.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Opinions have greater power than the strength of hands.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Who seeks shall find.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.