He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

I'm really a one-man band.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.