Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen