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

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"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."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost!"

"The perfect host requires the perfect parasite."

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way."

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."