1. Quietude is the crown of life.

Quietude is the crown of life.

2. Quality matters more than quantity.

Quality matters more than quantity.

3. Quietness is best.

Quietness is best.

4. Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.

God always favors the strong.

5. Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

6. Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.

7. Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.

Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.

8. Promise is debt.

Making a wish is a debt, and you cannot be ignored if you owe it.

9. Promise little but do much.

Promise less, do more.

10. Praise is not pudding.

Praise is not pudding.

11. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.

Please everyone, please no one.

12. People do not lack strength; they lack will.

People do not lack strength, but they lack will.

13. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

If you fail nineteen times and succeed the twentieth, you will succeed in something big.

14. Perseverance is vital to success.

Perseverance is vital to success.

15. Pen and ink is wit's plow.

Pen and ink is the plow of wisdom.