“Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.”

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

You drown him by your talk.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I am myself my own commander.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

I read. It affects every decision that I make.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.