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

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

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

"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."

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

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"A woman should never be trusted with money."

"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, 'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.'"

"If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

"There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court."

"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."