Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.