When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.