We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 

 

Pain past is pleasure. 

 

Books are ships which pass through the vast seas of time. 

 

Who begins too much accomplishes little. 

 

Better the last smile than the first laughter. 

 

Faith is a higher faculty than reason. 

 

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.  

 

Faith without deeds is useless. 

 

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. 

 

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. 

 

The will of a man is his happiness. 

 

He that has no shame has no conscience. 

 

A minute's success pays the failure of years. 

 

To doubt is safer than to be secure. 

 

By doubting we come at the truth. 

 

Habit is second nature. 

 

Who knows much believes the less.

 

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. 

 

Life itself is a quotation. 

 

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. 

 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. 

 

Education is the best provision for old age. 

 

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. 

 

Things are always at their best in the beginning. 

 

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. 

 

In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend. 

 

The difficulty in life is the choice. 

 

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. 

 

All fortune is to be conquered by bearing it. 

 

Better is to bow than break. 

 

Good fences makes good neighbors.