The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.