Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
