A word to the wise is enough.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Conquered, we conquer.

No blessing lasts forever.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A word to the wise is enough.

You must spend money to make money.

How great in number are the little minded men.

The evil that we know is best.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Let deeds match words.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

No man is wise enough by himself.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.