They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton

The heart has reasons of which reason has no knowledge.
Blaise Pascal

He who has acquired wealth betimes, unless he has saved it betimes, will have consumed it betimes.
Plautus

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less.
Piet Hein

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Plutarch

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe