One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.