Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.