The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Said the pot to die kettle “Get away blackface.”
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Tell me thy company and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
Ne’er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.