You may delay, but time will not.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Well done is better than well said
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.