Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.