Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

The best is the cheapest.