Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.