When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.