"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

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

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"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."

"I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance."

"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."

"Stupid is a boundless concept."

"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity."

"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."

"Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before."