Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. |
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. |
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. |
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. |
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. |
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism |
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism |
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. |
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that. |
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon |
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them |
You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. |