"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"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."

"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."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have."

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."

"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

"I haven't slept for a whole week, because that would be too long."