He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

The world is run by the people who show up.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

One today is worth two tomorrows.