Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

What is dignity without honesty?

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.