"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."

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

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

"All that counts in life is intention."

"I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it."

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."