An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Nothing to do but work,

What is the use of a new-born child?

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Man is a tool-making animal.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.