"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

"The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."

"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."

"When you tell the truth, people listen."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."