Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Spick and span new.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
To be prepared is half the victory.
All that glisters is not gold.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.