 None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. |
| When you have nothing to say, say nothing. |
| Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. |
| The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. |
| It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. |
| We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. |
| 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. |
| If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. |
| There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. |
| I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. |
| It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. |
| Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. |
| Mystery is not profoundness. |
| Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. |
| The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. |
| Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. |
| If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. |
| He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. |
| There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. |
| Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. |
