To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.