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

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

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

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."

"We cannot defend liberty abroad by deserting it at home."

"The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got."

"My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment."

"Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver."