
1. “Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”
2. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
3. “Choose the life that s most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.”
4. “Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”
5. “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
6. “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”
7. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to chewed and digested.”
8. “Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
9. “It is impossible to love and be wise.”
10. “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
11. “The worst solitude is to be destitute of true friendship.”
12. “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
13. “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding an that which is lost by not trying.”
14. “There are ill discovers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
15. “Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity”