Biography is the best form of history.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.