"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"We might make mistakes but we will make other things too."

"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering."

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace."

"Many things that I am experiencing I already remember."

"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."