"What's done cannot be undone."

"I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."

"Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."

"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work."

"Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both."

"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."

"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"There is a history in all men's lives."

"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."

"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys."

"If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again."