"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."

"I will not add another word."

"The covetous man is ever in want."

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."

"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."

"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."

"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other."