A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.