He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Loans and debts make worry and frets.
The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
They that envy others are their inferiors.
Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner.
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
They laugh well who laugh last.
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!
A poet is born not made.
No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
You are only worth has much as you have.