The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Be as you wish to seem.