As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Lost time is never found again.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
