Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

We should provide in peace what we need in war.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Either be silent or say something better than silence.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

Success makes some crimes honorable.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

By doing nothing men learn to do ill.

Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

What is left when honor is lost?

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.

No one should be judge in his own cause.

Never promise more than you can perform.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.