Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Gold will be slave or master.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures