If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Those who always think of their aches can never do what it takes!

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

I lost a button hole.