Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.