“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity”

“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones”

“In fair weather prepare for foul”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed”