"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."

"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."

"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."

"Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult."

"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise."

"Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'"

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

"PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution."

"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."