The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.