"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism."

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

"All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."

"The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman."