If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

If you must flie, flie well.

If you must flie, flie well.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more

He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]

Little wealth, little care.

Little wealth, little care.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in read more

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.