Where facts are few, experts are many.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.