1. No one can disgrace us but ourselves. 

2. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. 

3. Beauty may have fair leaves, but bitter fruit. 

4. God’s mill grinds slow but sure. 

5. None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 

6. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 

7. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 

8. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. 

9. One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. 

10. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. 

11. You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. 

12. Men and women use their brains differently, but that their brains may actually be designed differently. 

13. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. 

14. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics. 

15. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time. 

16. A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. 

17. Don't part withyour illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. 

18. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall,[Sentencedict.com] but bears no fruit. 

19. I count religion but a children toy, and hold there is no sin but igno-rance. 

20. A covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.