It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

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.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.