Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.