Half a truth is often a great lie.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.