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

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

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"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."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends."

"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"I never vote for anyone; I always vote against."

"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."

"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page."