Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
