Good manners are a part of good morals.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.