On Friendship:
If you want friends, you must be one.
Silence is the fittest reply to folly.
A skilled cheat needs no assistance.
One who thinks he can live without others is mistaken.
But he who thinks others cannot live without him is more mistaken.
Reputation is what you are in the Light
Character is what you are in the Dark.
Search others for their Virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Prosperity and Luck:
He who trusts all to Chance, makes a lottery of his life.
Promises may get friends, but 'tis performance that keeps them.
The Generous man enriches himself by giving; The miser hoards himself poor.
The Wise Man will desire no more than what he may get Justly; use Soberly; Distribute Cheerfully, and leave Contentedly.
AGELESS IDEAS:
Figures never lie, but liars can figure.
Advice after mischief is like medicine after death.
Man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Learn as if you were to live forever, Live as if your were to die tomorrow.
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden; but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
