“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square
“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich