We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.