If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If you have time don't wait for time.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.