"If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon."

"Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper."

"A light heart lives long."

"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied."

"Praise youth and it will prosper."

"Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home."

"When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case."

"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

"Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are."

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."