"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing."

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

"Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."

"If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there."

"New York: A third-rate Babylon."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"