Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.