The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

It is a pretty mocking of the life.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But a plain blunt man That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.

When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

The burdens of the world on my back lightens the world not one whit, while removing them greatly decreases my specific gravity.

Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conducts him on his way, How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an Inn a place of rest.

Butcher's window: Let me meat your needs.

The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.