Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
A brain is known by its fruits.
It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Men of few words are the best men.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
He that dies pays all his debts.
It is an infamy to die and not be missed.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
If you want enemies, excel others ; if friends, let others excel you.
I am a part of all that I have met.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
A fool flatters himself ; the wise man flatters the fool.
Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.
What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
Good manners are made of petty sacrifices.
O A truly wise man should have no keeper of his secret but himself.
O Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
O Age will not be defied.
O Nobody loves life like an old man.
O No man's pie is freed from his ambitious finger.
O We boil at different degrees.
O To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmoher.
O Man has his will,-but woman has her way.
O There's daggers in men's smiles.
O A liar should have a good memory.
O It is a wise father that knows his own child.
O No one loves the man whom he fears.
O One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
O The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
O God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
O The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
O New ideas can be good or bad, just the same as old ones.
O Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.
O They laugh that win.
O Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
O We should never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
O Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
O The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
O There is more to life than increasing its speed.
O Literature is the immortality of speech.
O The course of true love never did run smooth.
